Cuff-holder.



FRED P. DE WILDE, or SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

CUFF-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application filed January 6, 1916. Serial No. 70,557.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED P. DE lVILDE, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State ofWisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gulf-Holders, ofwhich the following is a description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a cuff holder serving as alink cuff button in the position of the cuff as normally worn, butyielding to permit the cuff ends to spread apart when the shirt sleeveis raised on the arm of the wearer, the spring action of the cuff holderin such position of the cuff serving to clamp the cufi to the arm of thewearer and thus hold the shirt sleeve in its raised position.

An object of the invention is to improve upon the construction shown inPatent No. 1,111,367 issued to me on September 22, 1914, by providing aspring Wire cuff holder with cuff buttons on the ends thereof andsuitable sleeve clamping means at the bend which will enable the cuffholder to be engaged with the sleeve normally, and again when the end israised on the arm and thus clamp the device in place.

Another object of the invention is to perfect the details ofconstruction of such clamping means particularly with respect toavoiding the cutting or tearing of the cloth of the sleeve.

With the above and other objects in view theinvention consists in thecuff holder as herein claimed and all equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like characters ofreference indicate the same parts in the difierent views,

Figure 1 is a view of a cuff holder of this invention with the cuffshown in dotted lines in its normal position;

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the ends of the cuff spread apart, as uponraisingthe sleeve;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the cuff holder with the sleeveclamp roller sectioned;

Fig. 4 is a sectionalview thereof on'the plane of line H of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the plane of line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a detail View of a modified form of the invention;

Fig. 7 is a sectional view thereof on the plane of line 7-7 of Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is a detail View of a further modified form of the invention;and,

Fig. 9 is a sectional view thereof on the plane of line 99 of Fig. 8.

In these drawings 10 indicates a wire spring bent to a general U-formwith its ends first converging until nearly or quite touching and thenbent approximately at right angles to their main portions and divergingfrom each other with cuff buttons 11 mounted on them, preferably in theshape of the enlarged ends of the ordinary link cufi buttons. In orderto give the desired degree of yielding movement of the arms of spring 10resisted by spring pressure one of said arms near the U-bend of thespring is preferably provided with an inwardly bent loop 12 which may bein the form of an incomplete circle, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, withthe bent portion fiattened in the manner shown in Fig. 5, to increasethe flexibility thereof or which may be in the form of a spiral loop 12,shown in Fig. 6, or a reversely bent loop 12", shown in Fig. 8, or inany other desired shape.

Near the U-bend of the spring wire 10, where the substantially parallelparts are relatively rigid, I provide a sleeve clamp preferably in theform of a clamping member pivotally mounted on one of the parallel partsof the wire and having a hook on its end engaging the other parallelpart of the wire. The preferred form for this clamping means is thatshown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, in which a wire loop 13 has its ends bentaround the short length of the wire 10 between the U-bend thereof andthe loop 12 so that the loop 13 becomes pivotally mounted and its bendis offset in the manner shown in Fig. 4 to form a hook-like cross-pieceon which is rotatably mounted a roller 14 of rubber or other suitableyielding material desirably surrounded by a metal tube 15. The offset inthe looped end of the clamping member 13 enables the center of theroller to pass beyond the plane of the U-bend of wire 10 to form a claspfor retaining its engagement with the cloth ofthe'sleeve when the edgeof the cloth is engaged between the roller and the Wire 10 in the mannershown in Figs. 1 and 2. The roller being of rubber is yielding to adaptitself to the thickness of the cloth without cutting into the Copies ofthis patent may be obtained for cloth, and the metal tube surroundingthe roller protects the rubber from wear.

In that form of the invention shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the clamping memberis also in the form of a wire loop 13, but the resilient action is giventhereto by bending the side lengths thereof to form spring coils 16. Thehook-shaped end of the clamping member 13 though being without theresilient roller is capable of yielding to adapt itself to the thicknessof the material engaged by reason of the expansion and contraction ofthe spring coils 16.

Another modification of the clamping member is shown in Figs. 8 and 9 inwhich a strip of sheet metal 13 is pivotally mounted on one side of thebend of wire 10 and has a hook-shaped end 17 to engage the wire on theother side of the bend, there being a cushion 18 of rubber or otheryielding material between the pivot bend of the clamping member and thewire 10 in order that the effective length of the clamping hook may bevaried to suit the thickness of the material engaged.

In any of the forms of the invention shown the spring wire 10, whilenormally holding the cuff buttons 11 in the position shown in Fig. 1,permits them to readily spread apart when the cuff is raised on the armand thus constitute no obstruction to the raising of the shirt sleeve,while the sleeve clamp by engaging the edge of the cloth serves to holdthe cuff holder in place as normally worn, and when the sleeve is raisedmay be engaged with the upper part thereof to hold it in such condition.The yielding action of the clamping member en ables it to be engagedwith the cloth of the sleeve without danger of cutting therethrough andassures a secure clamping engagement whatever the thickness of thesleeve material may be.

hat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A cuff holder, comprising a spring of 'a general U-form with a rigidU-bend and with its ends converging and then bent out of the plane ofthe U-form and diverging, cuff buttons on said ends, there being aspring loop formed in one of the sides of said spring near the rigidU-bend thereof, and a yielding sleeve clamping member pivotally mountedon said side of the spring between the loop and the U-bend and engagingthe other side of the spring near the U-bend.

2. A cuff holder, comprising a spring member of a general, U-form with arigid U-bend and with cuff buttons on its ends, there being a resilientloop formed in one side of the spring member near its rigid U- bend, anda yielding clamping member having connection with said side of thespring member between the U-bend and the loop and having connection withthe other side of the spring member near the U-bend and being adapted tobe disengaged at one of said connections to receive the cloth of thesleeve between the clamping member and the spring member.

3. A cuff holder, comprising a spring member of a general U-form withcuff buttons on its ends, one side of the spring n'i-ember near theU-bend' thereof being provided with a flexible loop, a clamping memberengaging .the said side of the spring member between the U-bend and theloop and also engaging the other side of the spring member near theU-bend, and a rubber cushion between one end of the engaging member andthe spring member, one end of the clamping member being detachable fromits engagement with the spring member.

4. A cuff holder, comprising a spring member of a general U-form withcuff buttons on its ends, one side of the spring member having aresilient loop formed therein near the U-bend, a U-shaped wire clampingmember having its ends bent around the said side of the spring memberbetween the loop and the U-bend, and a rubber roller around the U-bendof the clamping member to engage the other side of the spring membernear the U-bend thereof.

5. A cuff holder, comprising a spring member having a general U-formwith cuff buttons on its ends, one side of the spring member having aresilient loop formed therein, a U-shaped wire clamping member with itsends bent around the said side of the spring member between the loop andthe U-bend and having its U-bend bent to form a hook for engaging theother side of the spring member, a rubber roller mounted on the hookportion of the clamping member, and a metal tube surrounding the rub berroller.

In testimony whereof, I a'fliX my signa ture, in presence of twowitnesses.

- FRED P. DE WVILDE. Witnesses ARTHUR J. KNAUF, LE0 H. KALK.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

